//------------------------------// // Blue Ribbon // Story: Letters from the Unicorn // by moonblossom131 //------------------------------// A purple-maned mare scribbled the last few messy words onto the parchment. She was about to write the most critical information. "My inside... source... is..." she muttered as she wrote. It didn't matter that the princesses would hear her now. They were already coming for her, according to - "Drop the quill and don't move!" a voice boomed as the door banged open. The mare turned around slowly to see the entire Equestrian navy standing at her door. They had on silver armor, with their spears pointed directly at her. She just smiled at them. "Hello boys! Any new recruits?" she said with a faint Canterlot accent. "I said DON'T MOVE!" the captain shouted. "The Princesses are on their way now. The things you will be charged of! You don't deserve to know my sister." "Yes, but where would you be if I didn't design your wife's dress at your wedding? It would've been a complete disaster," the mare laughed it off. "PUT YOUR HOOVES INTO THE AIR. NOW," the Captain ordered. "AND DON'T SAY ANOTHER WORD OR WE WILL BE FORCED TO ATTACK." "Why, how courteous of you, Cap-" The mare's sentence was cut short as the Captain fired up his horn and blasted the mare with a flash of red light. A simple freezing spell. This was usually typical for such arrests. The mare rolled her eyes and opened her mouth, her lips forming words, but no sound came out. The mare's eyes grew wide with surprise. "I used a freezing spell," the Captain explained. "And a Silencing spell. The non-violent one of course." What's the violent one? the mare mouthed. "Where the pony rips out their own vocal chords." The mare kept her mouth shut. The Captain felt she was secure enough to take off his helmet. His multi-colored mane hung loose onto his shoulders. It was three colors, all various shades of blue. One dark, one normal, and one light. His coat was a pure white and his eyes were a deep blue. A kind blue, some would say. The mare mouthed his name with a smirk on her face. Just as he was about to retort back, regal hoof steps interrupted him. "Captain Armor," the serious feminine voice spoke. "I see you've done your job well." "I do it for Equestria's safety, Princess Celestia," he replied back. "We all know what's at stake here." The princess turned towards the mare with the white coat and purple mane. "Rarity," the princess said with narrowed eyes. "You have much explaining." The darker princess that followed her sister spoke to the guards. "All of you will leave except for Shining Armor." The doors shut behind the last soldier to leave. Princess Celestia nodded to Shining Armor and the spell that was cast upon Rarity was taken off. She smiled at the captain, brother of one of her best friends. "A little dark for a new father," Rarity smirked in her classy accent. Shining cleared his throat nervously. Celestia just rolled her eyes and Luna stomped one of her fore hooves. "We don't have time to banter about Cadence's pregnancy," Celestia said darkly. "We need to know what's in those letters. Why did you switch to DragonMail? Where is that dragon? Who were those letters to?" "I switched to DragonMail because its faster and easier to send," Rarity said, sitting down happily in the desk chair on a fluffy purple pillow. "I sent the dragon when I heard you were coming." "How did thou know that We were coming?" "I know because I know," Rarity said, being a little stubborn. "Back to the original questions. This isn't one of Twilight's quantum physics lectures in Hoofington. When I went there with her, it was just question after question! I'd prefer much simpler things. Anyways, those letters were to my friends." "Okay then," Luna said. The shadows of the room seemed to twist like snakes. No lights were on. The evening stood still, as Celestia was interrupted from setting the sun because of this. "Why doth thou send these letters to you're friends? What are thou hiding from Us?" "Can a girl not write to her friends? I haven't talked to them in a while you know," Rarity said. "And I think the better question is, what are you hiding from me?" "You said you didn't want this to be complicated," Celestia said flatly. "So lets leave it at that." "Princesses, do you think that this might have something to do with him?" Shining Armor pointed out. Rarity's ears flattened against her head. Her eyes were wide with worry. "Of course!" Luna face-hooved. "Why did we even tell her that?" "Because we knew she'd tell her friends," Celestia said. She cursed under her breath. "Tell me, Generosity, when are they coming?" "I don't know," Rarity said, her voice shaking. "You're lying." "I'm telling you, they never told me when they were coming to visit!" Rarity insisted. "You were writing something when my forces showed up," Shining Armor spoke coldly. "Would that happen to be a letter to your friends?" Rarity was a little frightened on the outside, but inside she was panicking like canopy hats were back in season. She couldn't think of an answer, they were onto her! She had to do this quickly. In a heartbeat, Rarity stuffed the letter inside her saddle bag. She threw it over her back and began to perform a powerful spell, coursing all her energy directly into her horn. She had researched the spell as a school project in her senior year of high school, but she had never actually performed the spell. "Wait, what is she-" Celestia barely had time to answer before a powerful blue-and-white explosion pulsed from Rarity's horn. It was shaped like a long tube, going up into the roof of the castle suite. The sound was like being stuck in a million 100 mph windstorms at the same time. Celestia, Luna, and Shining all covered their ears in agony. The blue and white tube wrapped around the suite like a ribbon, until the whole castle suite was covered. Rarity opened her eyes and stopped the spell, as she had done her job. She raced to the open window and jumped out of it, falling halfway down the castle as a giant boom sounded behind her. She landed in the small lake just below her and dived under the water as the blue ribbon imploded. Some form of electricity stretched out in a circular formation around the suite. It stretched out so wide that nearly half of Canterlot was subject to its prison. The electric sphere acted like a black hole and consumed itself along with the castle suite. The rest of Canterlot was burned, flaming with blue fire, and Rarity made her way to the surface of the pond. She was upset that her perfect curls were ruined by the water, but that was the least important of her matters. She needed to find the train station.